Could this be the ultimate support for medium sized pots? It’s worked so far for the Brugmansia in the front in quite strong winds. The three stakes are driven through cells in the honeycomb support material in the gravel.

This was inherited from the original garden. It’s always been very good in summer and popular with the bees. It’s got very woody over the years, and last year I tried to prop it up with stakes and cord. This didn’t really work, and this year I’ve let it flop. It seems happy, and I quite like it like this. I’ve struck some cuttings which seem to have taken, and I’ll repeat this in the autumn.

This is a relic from the previous London garden. I started with the pot closer to the house, where the leaves that side got shredded in the wind. Let’s see how they recover in this new position.

The wooden slats round the pot have done a good job of keeping it upright in the wind.

Groups of pots on the gravel are working really well, particularly in the front garden.

The clematis from the original garden, never very good, seems to have failed. The honeysuckle looked promising earlier in the year, but now looks tired. I would like at least one large flowered clematis and one good honeysuckle.

Something in the style of ‘Ville de Lyon’, now flowering for the second time, would be good.

This is a very vigorous plant on the S facing fence behind B3. It’s hardly flowering at all at the moment. I think this is because I gave it a very good prune last autumn, or early winter, when the neighbours cut back their side. The RHS advice is of course to prune immediately after flowering. It seems that Jasminum officinale should flower in spring on last year’s growth, and in autumn on this year’s. I’ll see what, if anything, happens this year, and then decide what to do.

This has never been very serious. It comes and goes with the seasons and weather. It’s easy to remove by twirling round a stick, but this tends to trap and pull out plants and animals, so I’ve stopped doing it this way. It can be pulled away from plants by hand and dumped in the shallows, where it dries out in dry periods and put on the compost heap (where it doesn’t rot down much, oddly). I haven’t had to add tap water to the pond since it was first filled, and the blanket weed is definitely in decline.